Resilience Can Help With Stress And Adversity

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Resilience Can Help With Stress And Adversity

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Resilience is the ability to adapt in the face of trauma, adversity,

tragedy or even significant ongoing stress. People who have

resilience harness inner strengths and tend to rebound more quickly

from a setback or challenge, whether it's a job loss, an illness or

the death of a loved one.

A new feature on MayoClinic.com helps users test their resilience

levels and provides tips to build resilience. The feature focuses on

12 characteristics of resilient people and ranks each user's scores

after a series of questions. The questionnaire uses a gauge

developed by experts at Mayo Clinic of how resilient an individual

may be based on some of the characteristics that resilient people

tend to have.

" People who are more resilient have the ability to say to

themselves, 'OK, this bad thing happened, and I can either dwell on

it or I can learn from it,' " says Creagan, M.D., a Mayo

Clinic oncologist in Rochester, Minn. " Resilient individuals have

cultivated a sense of forgiveness, and regardless of the setback or

slight, they're able to box it up, and let go of it. "

Tips featured on MayoClinic.com to help individuals become more

resilient include:

- Use humor and laughter

- Learn from experiences

- Remain hopeful and optimistic

- Accept and anticipate change

- Work toward goals

- Learn new things about yourself

- Think better of yourself